Personalized Medicine: State of the Art
Michael Cantor, MD,
Director, Healthcare Informatics
Pfizer
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Abstract: Personalized medicine has great potential to change many aspects of healthcare, from the earliest stages of drug discovery to the doctor-patient relationship. This talk will explore issues along this continuum, from adapting business models for personalized medicine, to translating personalized medicine into medical practice, to the impact of policy issues such as comparative effectiveness and medical cost containment. The talk will also look at regulatory issues in personalized medicine and their impact in the clinic.
Presenter Biography: Michael Cantor joined Pfizer’s Healthcare Informatics group in February 2008. His work focuses on the secondary use of clinical data, personalized medicine, and automated methods for pharmacovigilance. At Pfizer, he is leading the PEER (Pfizer Externally Enabled Research) initiative, which aims to partner with academic medical centers to perform observational studies using data from electronic medical record (EMR) systems. He also helped lead Pfizer’s efforts with the e-Health Initiative’s Connecting Communities for Drug Safety, a partnership between academia and the pharmaceutical industry exploring the use of EMRs for pharmacovigilance. He is a member of Pfizer’s Personalized Medicine SMART team, and helped organize Pfizer’s Personalized Medicine symposium, held in September 2008.
Prior to joining Pfizer, Michael was the Chief Medical Information Officer for the South Manhattan Healthcare Network of the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, based at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan. His work there focused on developing the network’s EMR system to improve patient safety and on using the network’s clinical data warehouse for research. He continues to see patients 1 day/week at Bellevue, and is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at NYU School of Medicine.
Michael completed his residency in internal medicine and informatics training at Columbia, has an M.D. from Emory University, and an A.B. from Princeton.
Online Presentation: http://lifescience.planetconnect.com/ppt/PMPrinceton/MICHAEL_CANTOR.ppt
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